Thread Subject: Re: Thoughts on Current Web Proposal

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From: Bekure, Blene W.
Date: Mon, Mar 26 2007 8:00 AM

I couldn't agree anymore! I do not think it should be dropped.


Blene W. Bekure


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Subject: Re: [teitac-websoftware] Thoughts on Current Web Proposal

Don wrote:
5. I am wondering if we should delete the frames requirement 1194.22(i).
At least for screen readers, definitive frame naming is helpful, but no
longer a major issue in terms of site navigation and comprehension.

DC: Ironic that we've been concerned about accommodating people who are
deaf-blind but would unintentially toss out the much larger population
of people with both vision and learning limitations. No, I wouldn't make
more of this standard than it is, but I most certainly wouldn't drop it.
It definitely provides meaningful orientation until screen readers
become smart enough to stop reading this invisible text altogether. Wish
we could actually prohibit the use of frames, but of course that's way
out of bounds.

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